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I have a wishlist of features for the tablature and guitar _notation_ feature request. I don't know how far the work on the features has gone, so I post to the list: (1) writing muted notes (i.e. dead notes) is already possible, but rather complicated and - what's more important - different for notes and tablature. I can define #(define (x-tab-format str context event) (make-whiteout-markup (make-vcenter-markup (markup #:musicglyph "noteheads.s2cross")))) headXOn = \override NoteHead #'style = #'cross headXOff = \override NoteHead #'style = #'default tabXOn = \set tablatureFormat = #x-tab-format tabXOff = \unset tablatureFormat and use it to switch between crossed note heads (or crosses for tab numbers respectively), but if I write some funky chord lines with lots of muted strings, the lilypond file gets complicated to read. I could use shorter commands, but that does not solve the problem. Would it be too difficult to extend the parser, so that I could simply write c8 xc8 c xc to get my dead notes both in a normal Staff and a TabStaff? (2) When I write a score with notes and additional tablature, I don't need the stems and stuff, so it would be good to have a \tabNumbersOnly-Feature which automatically switches to the desired output. But in cases where I have only tablature, there is a problem with durations >=2. I have a workaround with #(define (nonr-tab-format str context event) (make-vcenter-markup (markup #:musicglyph "space"))) % I don't know whether this is a good definition, but it works. % I simply copied the definition from above and replaced the cross by a space, % which doesn't need a white-out tabNrOff = \set tablatureFormat = #nonr-tab-format tabNrOn = \unset tablatureFormat to remove the number and draw only the stem manually, but I think it would be easier for me if lilypond does the job. Attached is an example to clarify the situation (it is the intro of "My lover is" by Chris deBurgh, by the way). Best wishes Marc PS: I have some ideas/wishes for handling bendings, but it would be interesting to see how far David has come with his ideas/feature requests.
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